The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

June 15th, 2021

If Bitcoiners don’t spend their precious time investigating other crypto projects, we’re “closed minded.”

If we do… https://t.co/EXNeKoGh7J

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@nic__carter turn in your pleb badge and gun

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@KyleSamani This is an odd form of bar-lowering in which you’re engaged. I thought we were trying to IMPROVE upon legacy trust models.

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Fourth robbery this year perpetrated against bitcoin traders in Hong Kong. H/T @richardbensberg
https://t.co/fTXZFNn2l7

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When you say “you don’t need to verify the integrity of the system yourself as long as others are verifying it” I h… https://t.co/vMgxq4bkCx

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@KyleSamani I don’t know how to quantify this “decentralized enough” to which you refer.

I know that if I can veri… https://t.co/AcWPLLNTh5

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@sanumbitcuniam Yes, nuance is hard. I just want to make it clear that these networks do NOT all operate the same way.

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@MewnSurfer @dfinity I’m sure they are comfortable with the model they have built.

What I’m more interested in is… https://t.co/eQvxzMcNmB

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I’ve yet to discover a high throughput blockchain-based network that doesn’t make some sort of trade-offs regarding… https://t.co/LpNoRmoEWU

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@danostrovsky But it’s not possible to just run a read-only node that doesn’t participate in consensus on the production network?

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@danostrovsky Are you saying that if I connect a “slow” machine to the production network in order to read data fro… https://t.co/vHBrU4ae8J

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@michael_saylor A bitcoin in cold storage is worth 10 in a third party’s custody.

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@danostrovsky I want to run a node on my benchmark machine and sync to the production network. Not sure why it’s so… https://t.co/bkcsnHzE3j

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@twobitidiot Can’t believe those ethernet maximalists weren’t more open-minded about token ring technology!

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@thousandbtc That’s what I’m trying to verify. The Dfinity folks are being coy/evasive. I’m wondering who is actually running nodes now.

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@Cryptdorian @frk0196 I assure you that my annual node report will reflect more poorly on a project if I can’t even… https://t.co/5t5oi3sj7H

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If anyone out there has been able to successfully build and run an “Internet Computer” node on their own, please reach out to me.

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